Innis & Gunn brewery: Edinburgh beer company submit plans for largest capital brewery in 150 years

The brewery will be able to create an estimated 30 new jobs if plans go ahead

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By the end of January 2020, this target had been reached, with the initial plans hoping the building would be ready by 2021, however Innis & Gunn have stated this may now be severely delayed due to the ongoing pandemic.

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The partnership is the UK’s first major collaboration of this type between a full-scale brewery and a university and will create a world-centre for brewing studies and applied learning.

The proposed site at Heriot Watt University Research Park

Set to be able to meet a higher demand of orders, the current team will relocate to the site from their current head office on Randolph Crescent.

As well as brewing Innis & Gunn’s flagship 'Lager Beer' and 'The Original' , the brewery will include a high-speed canning and bottling line, enabling the company to create all of their products under one roof.

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Innis and Gunn have also stated that the move will allow them to reduct their carbon footprint by up to 30% by using more modern equipment and technology.

Innis & Gunn’s Founder and Master Brewer, Dougal Gunn Sharp, said:

“I am excited that today we submit our planning application. This means that the project now enters a statutory phase during which our application will be considered by the local authorities in Edinburgh. In normal times we would expect this process to take three or four months. However, because of the COVID-19 situation we are not able to say how long this stage might take.

“Building our own brewery will bring a raft of benefits to the business. It will allow us to take control of our currently outsourced operations, expand our team and grow our production to meet the needs of our customers. On top of that, the Heriot-Watt partnership means their International Centre for Brewing & Distilling students will gain hands-on experience across all aspects of brewing operations in a large-scale production brewery.”